Cooper Hewitt reveals sinister side of facial recognition tech at London Design Biennale
Digital artists R Luke DuBois and Zach Lieberman have both created installations to reveal the primitive nature of facial-recognition technology that is used by organisations all over the USA.
Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum, commissioned both artworks for its London Design Biennale installation Face Values, which represented the USA.
They are described by Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Bauman as "a provocative design response to the social challenges presented by facial-detection technology".
Both invite visitors to sit in front of a camera and respond to instructions, while a computers makes judgments about their appearance and emotional state.
The US exhibition at the London Design Biennale featured two artworks exploring facial recognition technology In Expression Portrait, by R Luke DuBois, participants are asked to perform a particular emotion, like happiness or anger, for 30 seconds while the computer analyses their facial features. A voiceover then announces which emotion their expression most resembles, according to its data, as well as deducing the sitter's age, gender and race.
The fact that the computer's impression often doesn't align with reality is just part of the work.
"We need a huge push in media literacy around the ways in which artificial intelligence is deployed in our everyday lives, both in general and with image recognition in particular," DuBois told Dezeen.
"The technology that makes your life easier in ...
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